I mentioned that, yeah. Pretty amazing what the brain can do.
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Most things we eventually understand or figure out.
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The human mind cannot imagine something it has never experienced. Rather, it tries to extrapolate the unknown by piecing together experiences from the known.
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What if the Blind see the emptiness of the universe?
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i went blind once... im not lying... you see my body sweats alot and i dehydrate even when i read books and also i got low lung capacity and cant breeth fast for a long time, and i did a a 800 m jog, cam back with class starting streatching and bang! i clnd hear or see, and that is right i didnt see anything.... only imagine, i think it is becuase there wasnt eough blood supply with oxygen in it..
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Real life testimony woo. And yeah I know someone who has had that happen. He nearly passed out but was still aware.
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and due to neuroplasticity, our brains can restructure itself to use the visual part of our brain to do something else. pretty awesome shit eh?
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The only thing the brain can not understand is the brain.
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Lol... tell me and the other budding neuroscientists that...
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Well we hardly know how the brain works. It sends electroneural signals to nerves (yes I made up a word) to control the body and is made of neurons. What else do we know?
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Actually, alot. We know how those action potentials are propogated, the neural basis of vision, different types of neurons and their functionality, we are learning about adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus and its role in memory, we know a good bit about neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, and we also know a lot about gene expression and the development of the nervous system from studying models like the zebrafish. And now I'm too lazy to type anymore to you.
Booya mothafucka.
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We understand basics but not fully how things such as memory storage work. We are making great strides, yes, but we're not fully sure of anything at this point. And until human behaviour is predictable I have to disagree.
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yes, but you said "cannot" not "currently does not".
Memory storage is very close to being cracked
And human behavior is very predictable in a lot of cases, look at experiments by people like BF Skinner and Pavlov.
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Shiiiit he knows! Maybe to find the link, you have to stop seeing...
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It all depends on what kind of blindness they have. Is the problem in the eye or in the occipital lobe of the brain. For interest sake, you get a kind of blindness where the person denies that he is blind. It's called Anton's Syndrome.
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Wouldn't both a fully dysfunctional eye or lobe cause total blindness?
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Yes, both can cause total blindness. But with a functional lobe your brain can still create images. But not when they where born blind, like you mentioned.
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You can't touch anything and never will touch anything since electrons repel eachother. Yes you are floating right now.
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You know when you have a birthday and you're say 20, people say "It's my 20th birthday", well its not. It's your 21st as your actual birth was your first birthday.. ;P
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Your first birthday is when you're born... He has a point.
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That's not completely correct. It depends on what we refer. Do we refer to his physical age, or to the age of his DNA? Because in case that we are referring to the age of his DNA, then it is always his current physical age plus the physical age of his mother when she bore him.
Sources: ENG - Point 17 "Real age" / ES
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Or the age of the father when the child was born.
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there still is that same darkness, just they have nothing tangible to compare it to so to them it "seems" like nothing even though it is actually something, black a.k.a. the absence of light.
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you seem to have misunderstood what i am saying, i am saying it is still the same darkness as what we perceive as "black" its just they don't have anything "tangible" or "comparable" for them to understand it under the term black
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Very interesting, my mind is blown. I have always been intrigued by how people with impaired senses experience the world. I guess you can't really know how it feels unless you had the same imparities. But you know, if a person is born blind, how does he describe what it feels like to not be able to see anything?? He has never seen anything, so he doesn't know what to compare to. Mind = even more blown o,o
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yes. i am blind. show me the way. what i usually see is merely memories before i went blind. i imagine things with those memories. such as, if i'm speaking to a man, i'd have an image of my father speaking with me. as for woman, it's either my mother or sister depending on their age (which i can tell from their voice) and yes, i am not blind.
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Blind people do not see. Seems pretty obvious, no? Wrong.
When asked what they think a blind person sees, most people (and probably most of you) answer total blackness or darkness. Sadly, that's not the case, or at least usually isn't (I say usually because people who become blind often retain memory of vision and see blackness instead). A blind person sees nothing. They have no sensation of sight.There's no blackness of any kind. There isn't anything.
I hope your mind is sufficiently blown.
If not: The brain named itself. Courtesy of mmmspeedy.
The brain is the one thing the brain can not understand.
We are atoms trying to learn all about other atoms.
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